The Office of Regional and International Community Engagement invites you to attend a series of free events that showcase sustainable development work both on and off campus. Each speaker series will feature UBC leaders who will talk about their work on sustainable development and its intersections.
Their presentations will be followed by smaller break out groups led by each of the speakers to allow for more in-depth conversations and interaction with the audience.
Speaker Series 1
Thursday September 20th, 2018 ~ Dodson Room #302, 3rd floor
Adriana Laurent Seibt (LOVE Intersections & UBC Climate Hub)
Adriana is a fifth year student in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems. She is originally from Honduras, Central America and is passionate about social justice, climate change and food security. She is also a member of Love Intersections, a group of queer, people of colour who believe that storytelling is a powerful agent of change. She has been very involved with sustainability and climate action initiatives at UBC and currently works for the UBC Climate Hub as well as the LFS faculty.
Ernielly Leo (Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
Ernielly Leo is a recent graduate from the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at UBC whose studies focused on the various intersections of human/nature relation in sustainable development and conservation. With research interests in community-based policy and meaningful consultation, Ernielly worked alongside a community partners in Chiapas, Mexico, and Williams Lake. She has also worked with the BC Council for International Cooperation, where she worked on SDG measurements and consultations around British Columbia. At UBC, she spent her initial undergraduate years at Sprouts, working on food justice and sustainable consumption. She has co-authored a report on the state of forestry education in Asia Pacific and currently dabbles with the use of augmented reality as a learning resource through developing an immersive socio-economic walking tour app of Vancouver.
George Radner (Common Energy UBC & UBC sustainability collective)
George is a 4th-year undergrad studying economics and math. His areas of passion include climate change, women’s empowerment, and early childhood education. He’s worked with Common Energy UBC, campus’ largest student-led sustainability organization, for the past four years, including serving as Co-Director in 2017-2018. Presently, George is actively involved in the UBC Sustainability Collective, Common Energy’s Board of Advisors, and Early Childhood Educators of BC, a nonprofit. George teaches a weekly meditation class and his other hobbies include bird watching, vegan cooking, and classical music listening.
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